Michaela Schuster

Biography

German mezzo-soprano Michaela Schuster made her debut with The Royal Opera in 2008 as Herodias (Salome) and has since sung Princesse de Bouillon (Adriana Lecouvreur), Venus (Tannhäuser), Klytämnestra (Elektra) and Nurse (Die Frau ohne Schatten) for The Royal Opera.

Schuster was born in Bavaria and began her career as an oboist before training as a singer at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. She was a member of the ensemble of Darmstadt State Theatre 1999–2002 before beginning a freelance career. She now sings regularly for all the leading German opera houses and for such international companies as Vienna State Opera, Paris Opéra, La Scala, Milan, and the Salzburg Festival. In concert she has worked with leading orchestras and conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Semyon Bychkov and Christian Thielemann.